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Swine flu hitting everywhere
- Thread starter Death Phenomeno
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... lol are you serious?
This isn't like Mad Cow Disease. You can't get swine flu from eating pork.
I'm thinking about smacking you...
So yeah more swine flu in the US and thegovernment expects deaths! Thats always great =D (>.<)
He's obviously not serious. And it's practically impossible to contract mad cow disease from eating an infected cow.
rofl my entire high school sounded like that today.
though this is not a BSE discussion, eating infected cattle is the only way to get CJD (a human version of mad cow). Tissue transplants from infected people can also cause it, though this is far less common.
VKCA
(Virtual Circus Kareoky Act)
Im not sure how many people have seen this but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEPV-NTeZs&feature=featured
in general the video explains how the disease got into the general populace, or at least how they think it got in.
in general the video explains how the disease got into the general populace, or at least how they think it got in.
Exactly, RICH countries, however Mexico is not exactly really rich, sure, we have some money, but we dont qualify as rich. And what about poor countries? Basically, they are doomed?
latest info says 20 confirmed deaths in Mexico while 152 more possibly caused by Swine flu as well
Confirmed Infections:
United States:68( 45 new york,13 California,6 Texas,2 kansas, 1 Indiana,1 Ohio)
Mexico:172
Canada:13
New Zeland:11
UK:2
Spain:2
Israel:2
Costa Rica:2
In Mexico 1995 people are suspected with the virus, In the United States the possibility of the virus has spread everywhere, New york suspecting 100+ people might have the virus. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/H1N1_USA_Map.svg. possible cases have also spread to Europe( France,Italy,Austria etc),Australia,South America(Argentina,Brazil etc). It seems to not have reached any Asian countries besides Israel altough South Korea has like 2 suspected cases.It hasn't spread to any area of Africa according to the latest information.
So far around the world it's mostly suspected cases,With the exeption of the 7 countries that reported confirmed infection, also this statistics are from wikipedia but i think their pretty accurate as many provide sources and I seen many of this statements confirmed on the news.
In my opinion I think this is controllable and we shouldn't panic but it's defenetly important to keep an eye on.
Confirmed Infections:
United States:68( 45 new york,13 California,6 Texas,2 kansas, 1 Indiana,1 Ohio)
Mexico:172
Canada:13
New Zeland:11
UK:2
Spain:2
Israel:2
Costa Rica:2
In Mexico 1995 people are suspected with the virus, In the United States the possibility of the virus has spread everywhere, New york suspecting 100+ people might have the virus. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/H1N1_USA_Map.svg. possible cases have also spread to Europe( France,Italy,Austria etc),Australia,South America(Argentina,Brazil etc). It seems to not have reached any Asian countries besides Israel altough South Korea has like 2 suspected cases.It hasn't spread to any area of Africa according to the latest information.
So far around the world it's mostly suspected cases,With the exeption of the 7 countries that reported confirmed infection, also this statistics are from wikipedia but i think their pretty accurate as many provide sources and I seen many of this statements confirmed on the news.
In my opinion I think this is controllable and we shouldn't panic but it's defenetly important to keep an eye on.
Ah well I'm not in a position to make an opinion as I lack that kind of knowledge. I deal with doing the field work and some lab work identifying which species of mosquito we are dealing with (human biting, cannibalistic, disease carrying, non disease carrying etc) so my knowledge of flu viruses is no better than that of a layman. It's a summer job I've had for the past few years in a field I'm not going into.
However, I do start work here soon and we probably will be getting briefed on it to answer the public's questions. I can tell you right now, number one question this summer will be does swine flu spread through mosquitoes :P
Mosquitos? Ohhhh crap.. ... and they love my blood too..
I honestly don't know but I don't think it spreads through mosquitoes.
crap,Florida has it's first official case..it looks like it will spread in my state now,
It's only a matter of time before it makes it here to Oregon. There are already cases in California and British Columbia, and people travel between Oregon and both of those.
Bird flu was/is H5N1; this is H1N1. Also, rabbit flu is already here to kill us all!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13408
Just like the media to play a global game of Fear Factor.
The 150 deaths in La Gloria, Mexico attributed to the Swine Flu were likely caused by contamination from a nearby slaughterhouse. That would explain the relatively benign nature of the 'epidemic' everywhere else in the world, eh?
Just like the media to play a global game of Fear Factor.
The 150 deaths in La Gloria, Mexico attributed to the Swine Flu were likely caused by contamination from a nearby slaughterhouse. That would explain the relatively benign nature of the 'epidemic' everywhere else in the world, eh?
the first US death! 1 small infant died in Texas while there is 91 confirm cases,Germany,Austria ansd South Korea now report confirmed infection cases which adds to the list og infected countries(Spain,UK,Israel,US,Mexico, and New zeland)
... so 150 deaths caused from slaughterhouse contamination despite the virus spreading from human to human and not animal to human? wow, what were they slaughtering I wonder? I'm not a sensationalist and I take all of these things with a pinch of salt, but people should realise that, unlike Avian Flu and SARS (although admittedly the whole SARS thing passed me by a bit) This is much more contagious, although unlike Avian Flu the death rate is much lower. However, remember that this has a death rate estimated at 1-2% and spanish flu (over 100 million deaths...) had a 2.5-5% death rate, without the antibiotic treatments we have today.
The contamination and the virus are two separate things. When confronted with accusations that the slaughterhouse was responsible for the majority of the deaths in that village, the owners blamed the flu that was actually going around. The flu itself is infectious, but with a relatively low mortality rate. The contamination was likely caused by improper waste disposal management.